Disease and thermal acclimation in a more variable and unpredictable climate

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 146-151

  Raffel, Thomas R ^a   Romansic, John M ^b   Halstead, Neal T ^b   McMahon, Taegan A ^b   Venesky, Matthew D ^b   Rohr, Jason R ^b  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FROG; FUNGUS; GLOBAL CHANGE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LABORATORY METHOD; PATHOGEN; POPULATION DECLINE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE;

LATIN AMERICA;

ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI;

EID: 84870691825     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1659     Document Type: Article

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